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Quotes from Interview with The Guardian — Cathy Park Hong

born 1976 United States

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It’s one of the best benefits of growing up bilingual, right? You realise that meaning is slippery.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

Anti-Asian racism has come roaring back with the coronavirus scare,” says Korean American writer Cathy Park Hong. “People don’t think Asians face racism, but it’s always lurking under the surface.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

The way Richard Pryor talked about race was so brutally honest and funny and unvarnished. It made me think that I had never encountered Asian identity being written in that way.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

Maybe what I’m responding to is how white America has flattened our experience to a single story, how they perceive us as one kind. The book is an attempt to overthrow that.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cathy Park Hong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.